TARIFF PROTECTION "A healthy expanding economy is nothing more than a grand balancing act in which governments should be the balancing pole that maintains robust competition." Lyn Vickery GENERAL COMMENTS   If the delicate trade balance between imports and exports swings too far in any direction, competition is stifled and trade, businesses and the people suffer.  Because world market forces are never static, GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) sees different parts of the economy requiring stimulation or restraint in differing degrees at different times . The requirement for tariff protection or otherwise is therefore never static. NEW BUSINESS All new, micro, or small businesses especially require protection and a positive environment in which to grow.  GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) is strongly behind rural growth, trade and manufacturing and will do all in its power to assist small but viable commercial operations. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will:                          a. Provide tariff protection to industries and businesses who can prove such protection will enable                              then to survive and prosper.                          b. Constantly monitor tariff protection levels and maintain tariffs at a point where feather                              bedding does not occur, yet where competition can thrive.                          c.  Selectively restore and protect Australian's neglected manufacturing sector.                          d.  Restore Australia's anti-dumping laws. FREE TRADE POLICIES The free trade policies of our national governments over past decades have seen the merciless (one could say insane) slashing of tariffs, the loss of government preferential contracting to Australian industries and the emasculation of our formerly strong anti-dumping laws. While  it is one thing to remove protection and assistance from inefficient industries, it is another to dismantle policy that encourages competitive or new Australian industries that provide jobs and incomes to hundreds of thousands of  workers and their families. Many Australian manufacturing companies have been bought out by foreign based multinationals, moved offshore, or simply closed down. A free market is fine, but only when government provides the correct balance to nurture Australian business at all levels. Such is not the case with the economic rationalist policies of Labour and the Liberals   Also see:   BANKING SECTOR     MONOPOLIES     MANUFACTURING   EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE JOIN GLOBAL ACTION CONTACT US    |    MEDIA    |    ABOUT US   |    MERCHANDISE   |    EXECUTIVE   |   JOIN    |     VOLUNTEER   |     DONATE   |    HOME